Kremlin Press Secretary Peskov: No one in Russia has ever spoken of using nuclear weapons
The Kremlin doesn’t think it “permissible” to discuss the threat of nuclear weapons use. This is how Dmitry Peskov, the administration’s spokesman, responded to a remark about the recent Russia–U.S. agreement to abstain from using nuclear weapons:
We don’t think it permissible to raise such questions, not to speak of discussing this. You may have noticed that no one on the Russian side talks about this, nor has talked about it before. This is discussed in European countries, and anywhere else, to build up tension in a completely prohibited, impermissible, and potentially dangerous sphere.
Earlier today, the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Russia and the U.S. had reached an agreement in Ankara not to attempt to use nuclear weapons in the near future.
On November 14, the CIA Director Bill Burns met with Sergey Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service. At the meeting in Turkey, Burns spoke with Naryshkin about the consequences of nuclear weapons use.
Russian authorities and propagandists alike often threaten countries of the West with the Russian nuclear arsenal.
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